homegrown
/hˈoʊmɡɹˈoʊn/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.06 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Raised or cultivated at home, on one's own land, or in one's own country; domestic; indigenous.
adj
Produced or coming from one's own country or a particular place; local; native; self-produced.
noun
Someone or something which originated locally.
noun
A native citizen of a country, especially a criminal, who has an ethnic, cultural and/or religious background that is different from the country’s historical majority, and is therefore perceived as foreign despite formal citizenship.
Derogatory
Example Sentences
- "Each spring they planted a garden and each summer they enjoyed homegrown vegetables."
- "The young politician is a homegrown talent we are all proud of here."
- "One had never stepped in a rowing boat until 2008, the other will return to serve in the Royal Artillery in September. But Glover and Stanning will now go down in the record books as the first homegrown gold medallists of the London 2012 Olympics."
- "As historian Paul Hanebrink writes, the far-right in Europe could not accept that the success of the 1917 Russian Revolution represented genuine homegrown support for leftist politics, so communism had to be explained as part of "a Jewish plot to overthrow civilization and impose foreign rule on the nations of Europe.""
- "Union head coach Jim Curtin, a lifelong Philadelphian, has made it clear that signing homegrowns will be a priority for him moving forward."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos Proto-Indo-European *teḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *tḱéytibf. Proto-Indo-European *tḱey- Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *tḱóymos Proto-Germanic *haimaz Proto-West Germanic *haim Old English hām Middle English hōm English home English grown English homegrown From home + grown.